Depressive Symptoms and Marijuana Outcomes in College Students: The Mediating Role of Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana

<p>The present study evaluated the sequentially mediating role of protective behavioral strategies for marijuana (PBSM) and marijuana use frequency on the relationships depressive symptoms had with hazardous marijuana use and marijuana-related negative consequences in college students Participants were 338 (50.3% male) undergraduate college students age 18 to 25 (<em>M </em>= 22.10; <em>SD</em> = 1.97) who reported marijuana use in the past 30 days. Participants reported their gender and completed measures of depressive symptoms, PBSM use, marijuana use frequency, marijuana-related negative consequences, and hazardous marijuana use through an online survey from a 2018 project. Depressive symptoms were positively associated with marijuana-related negative consequences, but this relationship was not sequentially mediated PBSM use and marijuana use frequency. Further, depressive symptoms were positively associated with hazardous marijuana use, but this relationship was not sequentially mediated PBSM use and marijuana use frequency. These relationships were also found to be invariant by gender. Thus, while this study found positive associations between depressive symptoms and marijuana outcomes, PBSM use and marijuana use frequency alone did not explain the relationship between depressive symptoms and marijuana-related outcomes and that gender did not moderate these relationships.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Militello, Nicholas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Michael B. Madson
• Richard S. Mohn
• Bonnie C. Nicholson

• marijuana
• depression
• protective behavioral strategies
• marijuana outcomes
• college students
• Clinical Psychology
• Counseling Psychology
• Health Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/794

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1849